Test IBM System i 5X Faster (AS/400, iSeries)

Hundreds of customers since 1998

Original Software offers you the word’s leading solution for ensuring the quality of your IBM System i platform. Speed up your testing, release more frequently and increase your coverage

The modern world of browsers, e-Commerce, Java and multi-layered client/server applications seems to leave little room for the IBM i, but the reality is different.Download PDF Skandia’s iSeries Customer Story This venerable machine is the application backbone of many companies even as they increasingly surround it with modern user interfaces and applications running on Microsoft, Oracle or other technology.

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And why change? Often it is impossible to identify any functional benefit from moving to an alternative application stack like SAP or Oracle EBS and the massive costs of such a move are widely reported and acknowledged. So if your strategy involves a best of breed mix of technologies that recognises the key role the IBM i still has to play, what are your challenges in maintaining quality?

Here are three ways we can help

Test Data Management

Taking a copy of the full corporate database for testing is slow, makes testing run-times enormous, almost certainly breaks a number of privacy laws and requires a lot of expensive disk storage. What’s worse once the test data is used or corrupted the whole process must be repeated. We address these issues with a data management platform to sub-set live data, obfuscate sensitive data, create new data combinations and then undo changes to enable rapid re-runs of test scenarios.

Capture and Document Processes

Working knowledge of your IBM i applications is probably locked inside the heads of a few key individuals. If these people leave or retire, what then? If you are evaluating alternative application suites, how can you do it unless you have your existing capabilities documented? This solution enables you to document exactly how the system works now.

Mitigate Risk

Finally how can you mitigate and manage your risk. Good planning and processes all help but risk-informed implementation decisions can only be made on the back of broad and deep testing. From browsers to green screen, from SAP to J.D. Edwards, from Bally Tech to Manhattan Associates. Test your IBM i under its covers; Message a Queues, Job Logs, Batch Jobs, Program Parameters, Database and Data Areas can all be exercised and verified.